Hong Kong filmmaker Johnny To directs this slick action thriller starring Anthony Wong Nick Cheung Simon Yam & Francis Ng It&s 1998 & the Portuguese colony of Macau a city on the southern coast of China is about to be handed over to Chinese authorities under a long-standing agreement It is as yet unclear to the Macau citizens how their new leaders intend to deal with the criminal underground that&s long been part of the city&s support system Against this backdrop a pair of hit men from Hong Kong arrive in town to take out a renegade gang member who has turned his back on the syndicate to make a new life for his wife & newborn baby However things get complicated when two more of their former associates also arrive in Macau with a single aim to ensure the former gangster&s safety The film premiered at the 2006 Venice Film Festival ...

Residential motels have long been places of last resort for many vulnerable Americans-released prisoners people with disabilities or mental illness struggling addicts the recently homeless & the working poor Cast aside by their families & mainstream society they survive in squalid unsafe & demeaning circumstances that few of us can imagine For a year the sociologist Christopher P Dum lived in the Boardwalk Motel to better understand its residents & the varied paths that brought them there He witnessed moments of violence & conflict as well as those of care & compassion As told through the voices & experiences of motel residents Exiled in America paints a portrait of a vibrant community whose members forged identities in response to overwhelming stigma & created meaningful lives despite crushing economic instability In addition to chronicling daily life at the Boardwalk Dum follows local neighborhood efforts to shut the establishment down leading to a wider analysis of legislative attempts to sanitize shared social space He also suggests meaningful policy changes to address the societal failures that lead to the need for motels such as the Boardwalk The story of the Boardwalk & the many motels like it will concern anyone who cares about the lives of America's most vulnerable citizens ...

Exiled Legends is a strategic card game where mythical creatures wield incredible power Play as an Exiled Legend a powerful deity that rules over the desolate land to which they have been banished Build your team of Heroes & fight to gain control in the Banesphere Will you emerge victorious or suffer a bitter defeat? Fighters gather at the gates of the Banesphere waiting to be selected for battle As a Legend you start by choosing six fighters to serve as your Heroes & to enter the Banesphere to test your team&s prowess Your team will have one Champion & two Supports at a time fighting on your behalf Each time your Champion is defeated you will promote one of your Supports & bring in a new fighter to take the vacant Support position When you run out of fighters you must enter the fray yourself But be warned if you are defeated your entire team must immediately retreat from combat & return to the barren wasteland until the next battle On their turn players will manage Bane tokens activate Hero abilities & attack their opponents& Heroes in order to ultimately destroy their champions & force the Legend into the fray A Legend emerges victorious when they force their each of their opponents to flee back to the barrens Players 2-5 Playing time 30-60 mins Ages 14 ...

First entry in a new series of novellas from multiple bestsellers Harry Turtledove John Ringo Jody Lynn Nye SM Stirling & Michael Z Williamson! After the extinction asteroid DOESN strike Earth the dinosaurs keep evolving
- but so do the mammals We mammals have achieved human-like shapes but now it cold-blooded magic-using reptiles against the hot-blooded hot-tempered descendants of cats! In a heroic bronze-age world the Mrem Clan of the Claw & its sister warbands are expanding their rough-&-tumble territory but now they face the Lishkash masters of a cold-blooded empire of slave armies & magic It mammalian courage & adaptation against reptile cunning in a clash of steel & will that will determine which line shall inherit the Earth!
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First entry in a new series with three big all new novellas from three multiple New York Times best-sellers SM Stirling John Ringo & Jody Lynn Nye & Harry Turtledove! The cat-like Mrem our heroes battle the deep reptilian intelligence of humanoid dinosaurs in a bronze-age world First entry in a new series with three big all new linked novellas from multiple best-sellers Harry Turtledove John Ringo & Jody Lynn Nye SM Stirling & Michael Z Williamson! After the extinction asteroid DOESN’T strike Earth the dinosaurs keep evolving – but so do the mammals We mammals have achieved human-like shapes but now it’s cold-blooded magic-using reptiles against the hot-blooded hot-tempered descendants of cats In a heroic bronze-age world similar to 300 the Mrem Clan of the Claw & its sister warbands are expanding their rough-&-tumble territory but now they face the Lishkash masters of a cold-blooded empire of slave armies & magic It’s mammalian courage & adaptation against reptile cunning in a clash of steel & will that will determine which line shall inherit the Earth About the Author Multiple New York Times bestseller SM Stirling is a Canadian-American best known for his Draka series of alternate history novels & his Change science fiction saga Stirling lives in New Mexico USA Today & New York Times best-seller John Ringo is the author of the landmark Posleen Wars military science fiction series the Legacy of the Aldenata series & the Ghost military action-adventure novels He also co-authored with David Weber the best-selling Prince Roger science fiction series A veteran of the US Army 82nd Airborne he brings first-hand knowledge of military operations to his fiction Hugo & Nebula award-winner Harry Turtledove is often called the dean of alternate history science fiction with a string of best-sellers including his Guns of the South alternate Civil War saga He lives in California Popular SF thriller master & creator of the Freehold series Michael Z Williamson is the author of numerous novels including Do Unto Others When Diplomacy Fails Rogue & with John Ringo Posleen War series landmark The Hero Bill Fawcett is the creator of the Fleet series of military science fiction novels with David Drake & the editor of over 300 science fiction & adventure collections & anthologies ...

Tracklist A1 Take My Picture A2 Happily Ever After B1 So True B2 So Bound C1 Peer Prejudice C2 To Sever The Strings D1 Shade From My Fire D2 Fault's Peak ...

12 youths have reached an Underworld called “ Planet Protolexa” They have been granted immortality but possess the choice to be mortal again Unfortunately only 11 individuals can be revived leaving one to be lost forever to the Underworld 50 hours of gameplay High action side scroll style Hack & slash combat elements Multiple endings ...

RPG masters tri-Ace present their latest action RPG opus! 12 youths die in a strange explosion in the heart of Tokyo They awake to find themselves in a mysterious world where they have been granted immortality & god-like strength For what purpose have they been brought to this land? What unknown truths will they unravel along their journey?50 hours of gameplay power ups skill customizations side quests secret bosses & hidden dungeons await! Your choices dictate the fate of your party & offer multiple paths to unique endings Mixing & combining attacks will affect your party chemistry Trigger special events & attack combos by balancing your Friendship Affection & Rival levels What insane skills will you unlock?! Each character attack corresponds to a button that unleashes massive devastation Maximize the punishment you dish out to enemies by building powerful combos! ...

Existential therapy has been practiced & continues to be practiced in many forms & situations throughout the world But until now it has lacked a coherent structure & analysis of its tenets & an evaluation of its usefulness Irvin Yalom whose Theory & Practice of Group Psychotherapy has rendered such a service to that discipline since 1970 provides existential psychotherapy with a background a synthesis & a framework Organized around what Yalom identifies as the four ultimate concerns of lifedeath freedom existential isolation & meaninglessnessthe book takes up the meaning of each existential concern & the type of conflict that springs from our confrontation with each He shows how these concerns are manifested in personality & psychopathology & how treatment can be helped by our knowledge of them Drawing from clinical experience empirical research philosophy & great literature Yalom has written a broad & comprehensive book It will provide an intellectual home base for those psychotherapists who have sensed the incompatability of orthodox theories with their own clinical experience & it opens new doors for empirical research The fundamental concerns of therapy & the central issues of human existence are woven together here as never before with intellectual & clinical results that will surprise & enlighten all readers ...

What does it mean to practice therapy in an existential way? What are the different existential approaches? What are their strengths & limitations? Focusing on practical face-to-face work with clients the book introduces students to six existential therapies highlighting areas of commonality & difference & discusses key figures & their contributions including Yalom van Deurzen Spinelli Frankl & Laing It outlines the critical perspectives & key debates & presents implications for practice reflection & further reading Fully updated to reflect current issues this book now

Includes:: Sections presenting research evidence for each approach An extended case study running through the book demonstrating how different therapies might approach the same case Chapter overviews questions for reflection & additional case studies of actual existential practice

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